If the child was NOT left on the freeway and he followed the order even though he could have just ignored it.... oh wow like mother like son. If the kid was left on the freeway because he was kicked out of the car, well he just didn't have a choice. Maybe he'll realize he has the wrong mother.

Maybe if safe walkways were taken into consideration when making highways this wouldn't be a problem.

It pisses me off I can't ride my bike to the local grocery store about a mile away because I have to cross one crazy intersection and ride down a half mile of full access 4 lane road. Maybe if I had those spandex riders pants that make you better than every car or pedestrian out there. I do have an over-sized SUV with stickers of a single couple and bags of cash on it though. So I got that going for me.

/I missed in tfa what age the kid was but by 12 they should be capable of finding their way home.

I had almost the same thing happen to me when I was a kid about that age. Got mouthy one time too many and got kicked out of the car and told to walk the rest of the way home. Of course it wasn't on a freeway or dark out...

My mom did something similar to me as a kid and to this day she still thinks to this day it was okay. I missed my bus at school one day (I was a 4.0 student and all around good kid).

I called her and asked her to pick me up (she was about 3 miles away at her school where she taught 5th grade). After screaming and cussing at me, she told me she wasn't going to pick me up and that if I didn't want to walk the 30 miles home, I needed to walk the 3 miles to her school before she left.

So I walked... Through 100+ degree heat. Through some of the worst ghetto you can imagine. 2.5 miles into it someone drives up behind me (I had already ducked a few pedos and criminals on my way there). I was scared... Thank God it was my JROTC instructor.

He wanted to know why I was walking through that area (he had to drive that way on his way home). I told him, so he offered me a ride. I told him my mom would freak out if she saw him drop me off and that I'd just walk the rest of the way. He insisted and told me to get in. He dropped me off a block from her school (so she wouldn't see) and told me she shouldn't have made me walk through that neighborhood as it was dangerous.

He offered to "have a talk with her", but I told him that would just make my life worse, and I thanked him for the ride. He told me if that ever happened again to just give him a call and gave me his number.

He died a few years later of a heart attack. The kids at my school gave him a hard time about the way he looked (called him Popeye) and were generally asses to him unless they knew him well -they probably drove him to an early grave. -He was a kind hearted, good man, and a great role model.

My 7 year old got in trouble the other day for telling some rotten kid that kept throwing everyone's lunch boxes around to go play in traffic. Well, in trouble at school anyway. We had a good laugh on this end.

ajgeek:Anthracite: blatz514: "Making your child walk home on I-45 at 8:30 at night in the dark

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Is it dark in the middle of summer at 8:30?

okey then...

October 9th is "the middle of summer?"

/Sunrise- 7:20 AM, Sunset - 6:57 PM

Depends on the hemisphere. So, you need a map and a calendar to see the redundancy.

I have made my son walk home, but not along a road more than 40 mph speed limit. The power locks didn't work on the car we had at the time, and he ignored my warnings about what would happen if he didn't remember to lock his door. I chose that punishment to show him what would happen if the car was stolen. It was only two miles.

/our sunset was about 6:30-6:40, I know since I drove home with the sun just getting below the trees.